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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
Butch and The Kid are a pair of bank- and train robbers in the late 1800’s. They find themselves hotly pursued by the authorities and run to Bolivia. Directed by George Roy Hill. Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
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The good, the bad and the ugly
After forming an uneasy alliance, a trio find themselves facing greed, treachery and murder as they search for a stash of gold.
Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef.
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High Noon
Will Kane is a small town marshall who lays life and wife on the line to confront a a fierce killer who’s about to arrive and take vengeance against Will for sending him to prison years earlier.
Directed by Fred Zinneman. Starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly and Lee van Cleef.
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The man who shot Liberty Valance
Years ago Ransom Stoddard came face to face with Liberty Valance, the greatest gunfighter known to the entire town. Ransom is then thrust into a political career, representing a new civilization.
Directed by John Ford. Starring John Wayne and James Stewart.
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Once upon a time in the west
Frank is the sadistic killer hired to dispatch the widowed owner of some railroad land while Harmonica plays the harmonica.
Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Charles Bronson.
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The searchers
After a short excursion, Ethan finds that the family home has been destroyed by Comanches. He embarks on an epic quest to retrieve his surviving niece Debbie.
Directed by John Ford. Starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood
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Unforgiven
A retired gunslinger lives on a farm but is offered a job by a group of prostitutes to kill a man who knifed one of them. He calls on a friend and goes on one last job.
Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris.
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The wild bunch
In the Southwest of 1913, a gang of outlaws is coerced by a Mexican general into robbing a U.S. Army gun shipment.
Directed by Sam Peckinpah. Starring William Holden and Ernest Borgnine.
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Spotlight
John Wayne
Remarkable:
Wayne told a group of friends after a private screening of Midnight cowboy that he thought that actors Hoffman and Voight were great. A few days later he wondered: “Whoever thought I’d say good things about a movie featuring a gigolo, a homeless Italian dwarf, and gang rape”.
Born:
May 26, 1907
Born as:
Marion Robert Morrison
Died:
June 11, 1979
Raised in California, Marion went to USC on a football scholarship. During summer vacations he was employed as a third-string prop man in the Fox-studio's and on the set he became close friends with director John Ford for whom he began doing bit parts.
Wayne got his break winning the the lead in Fox's upcoming Western epic The big trail. He changed his name in John Wayne and became in 1939 a star in the role of The Ringo kid in Stagecoach.
In 1948 for the first time, critics sat up and took notice when the duke starred in Howard Hawks' Red River (1948). The 50s gave Wayne an opportunity to depth and poignancy in films like She wore a yellow ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Searchers (1956) and Rio Bravo (1959).
In real life he was a patriot, an ultra-American who reflected his right-wing political stance in The Alamo (1960) and in The green berets (1968). John won his only Academy Award with True Grit (1969).
Academy awards
1970 Won Best actor for: True grit (1969)
1961 Nominated Best picture for: The Alamo(1960)
1950 Nominated Best actor for: Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Selected Movies:
- The searchers (1956)
- The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- Red River (1948)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Quiet Man, The (1952)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- The longest day (1962)
Books:
S. Zmijewsky and B. Zmijewsky and M. Ricci -> The Complete Films of John Wayne (1983/1995)
Randy Roberts and James S. Olson -> John Wayne, American (1995)
Ronald L. Davis -> Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne (1998)
Emanuel Levy -> John Wayne: Prophet of the American Way of Life (1988/1998)